The Mobile Allotment is a modular, mobile planting unit, designed and built by Lisa Cheung. The Mobile Allotment is a constantly evolving and growing project that was piloted on the Nightingale Estate in Woolwich, London, where it was comprised of two untis, a mobile raised bed and cold frame greenhouse. Once they took up residency on the estate Lisa and Avant-Gardening began a programme of activities to engage the community with creative and growing projects ranging from vegetable and herb growing to t-shirt design.
Soups were cooked and shared whilst the children competed in the 'best runner bean contest' or created their own Nightingale Fanzine. As word of the Mobile Allotment spread more and more local people came to join in the activities and the Mobile Allotment was invited to hit the road to visit the Spitalfields Green Fair, the Barbican's Radical Nature exhibition and the Hackney Wick Festival.
The Mobile Allotment became a temporary hub for the community where people discussed their local environment and the physical changes they wanted to effect on the estate. A local community group built a couple of raised beds for the centre of the estate adding an attractive focal point to the main green space and talks with Groundworks began to further embed the new green changes taking place.
The Mobile Allotment has now finished it's residency on the estate and will soon be moving over to east London for its next exciting residency
More information about the Mobile Allotment can be found on the
blog page
www.mobileallotment.blogspot.com
